The first three comic book companies that published Groo went bankrupt and one of them experienced a flood that wiped out their offices. The fourth has had some legal messiness while the fifth and current American publisher (Dark Horse) is still oddly functioning and healthy. This has disappointed some folks who cottoned to the notion that the book was some sort of publishing jinx. Such people will be gratified to know that The Malaysian Sun — a newspaper that was reprinting Groo in, you guessed it, Malaysia — just announced that it was floundering and would be laying off two-thirds of its staff. We're all so proud.